Flag of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic

The flag of the Tajik SSR sported the Pan-Iranian colors of red, white and green, manifested in the large white and green stripes in the middle of the red flag (below the gold hammer and sickle) as a nod to the republic's Persian culture. The flag was adopted on March 20, 1953 by the Supreme Soviet of the Tajik SSR's decree:

The national flag of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic is a panel consisting of four horizontal colored stripes: the upper band of red which is half the width of the flag; white stripe, making one fifth of the width of the flag; green stripes, is one-tenth the width of the flag, and the lower band of red color, is one-fifth the width of the flag. On top of the red band at the flagpole located gold hammer and sickle and above them is an five-pointed red star framed by a gold border. The ratio of the flag's width to its length is 1: 2.

The fitting of the hammer and sickle into a square whose side wound 1/4 width of the flag. The sharp end of the sickle falls in the middle of the upper side of the square, handles the sickle and hammer rest on the bottom corners of the square. hammer with a handle length is 3/4 of the diagonal of a square. The five-pointed star in a circle fits 1/8 width of the flag relating to the upper side of the square. Distance vertical axis of the star, the hammer and sickle from the grapnel is equal to 1/4 of the flag's width. The distance from the top edge of the flag of the flag to the center of the star - 1/10 of the flag's width.^[1]

The red represents the unity of the republic and the aspect of workers' revolution, white symbolized cotton production, the basis of Tajik agriculture, and the green was for other agricultural produce.^[2]

History

The first flag of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted on February 23, 1929, and was red with the coat of arms in the top-left corner.

From February 25, 1931, the flag was the same, but without the Cyrillic characters. However it was replaced on July 4, 1935 when the flag had its hammer and sickle removed. The first line of characters in Latin red RSS Tocikiston was added in 1937. The gold hammer and sickle was restored in 1940 but it reads the gold Cyrillic characters "РСС Тоҷикистон" (RSS Tojikiston)—country's name in Tajik—and "Таджикская ССР" (Tadzhikskaya SSR)—country's name in Russian—in a sans-serif font. The final flag was adopted on March 20, 1953 which was the red Soviet flag with white and green stripe near the bottom, with the following measures: 1/2 red, 1/5 white, 1/10 green, 1/5 red.

Following independence on September 9, 1991, the Tajik SSR flag remained in use until the new Tajik flag was adopted in November 1992, becoming the last post-Soviet flag to receive one.

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  Flag from 1936-1938

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  Flag from 1938-1940

See also

• Flag of the Soviet Union
• Coat of arms of the Tajik SSR
• Flag of Tajikistan

References

Flags of the Soviet Union and Soviet Republics
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